Housing market cools as summer heats up

WASHINGTON — The chill starting to swirl through the housing market is slight, but it's for real. Home prices are not rising as fast in most metro areas as they did earlier this year and much of 2012. Multiple-bid competitions — fierce in many places...

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Patent sought for infant-saving AIR

A pioneering MIT researcher is tackling the huge problem of infant deaths with a simple device he put together on the night he learned that nearly 2 million children die on the day they are born. "I had a few sensors literally lying in the trash in...

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3-D Pancam's big potential

Video cameras can do a lot today, but picture one that has such varied uses as entertainment, surveillance, facial recognition — even interior design — and you've pretty much got the Pancam — or Eric Prechtl's vision of it, anyway. With enough seed...

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New Mass. sales tax angers, confuses tech firms

BOSTON — A new Massachusetts sales tax on software and computer services, part of a massive transportation financing plan that became law last month, has been met with anger and confusion in the state's technology sector, prompting calls for its repeal....

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German magazine: NSA spied on United Nations

BERLIN — The German magazine Der Spiegel says the U.S. National Security Agency secretly monitored the U.N.'s internal video conferencing system by decrypting it last year. The weekly said Sunday that documents it obtained from American leaker Edward...

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States that allow private lobbyists in pension

At least 20 states allow some private lobbying groups to tap into often lucrative and safe state pension systems, according to a review by Associated Press reporters across the nation. Legislatures granted such groups access decades ago on the premise...

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Private lobbyists get public pensions in 20 states

ALBANY, N.Y. — As a lobbyist in New York's statehouse, Stephen Acquario is doing pretty well. He pulls down $204,000 a year, more than the governor makes, gets a Ford Explorer as his company car and is afforded another special perk: Even though he's...

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Small farmers: Rules could halt local food trend

CONCORD, N.H. — Federal officials say they appreciated hearing from northern New England farmers about proposed food safety rules, but some of the farmers didn't find the experience very valuable. Hundreds of farmers from Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire...

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Nordic editors protest moves against the Guardian

STOCKHOLM — Top editors of the largest Nordic newspapers say that Britain's use of anti-terror legislation to "harass" the Guardian newspaper and people associated with it could threaten news media around the world. The editors-in-chief of Sweden's...

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Texas lets company near bankruptcy expand mines

TATUM, Texas — A small East Texas town barely a half-hour from the Louisiana border has relied on coal mining and power plants for jobs and economic development for generations. One of the region's major mining companies is on the brink of bankruptcy....

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